The Press: Split Decision

How should a newspaper report the marriage of a white person and a
Negro? Is the paper fomenting race prejudice if it mentions that one of
them is a Negro? Is it guilty of poor news judgment if it fails to do
so? Many editors find the question delicate and difficult.

Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was
Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a
descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was
Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had
met in social-welfare work.